Freud's Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film (Language, Discourse, Society)
by Teresa de Lauretis
Teresa De Lauretis makes a bold and orginal argument for the renewed relevance of the Freudian theory of drives, through close readings of texts ranging from cinema and literature to psychoanalysis and cultural theory.
Evelyne Keitel suggests that certain contemporary novels can alternately create states of acute anxiety and intense pleasure in their readers. She defines this genre, which includes writers such as Plath and Lessing, as "psychotic literature". Keitel distinguishes between pathographic texts (which analyze the distance between the author's neurosis and his or her point of view) and psychopathographies, which draw readers into an internalised pathographical experience. Reading Psychosis' shows how...
Christos Tsiolkas and the Fiction of Critique (Anthem Australian Humanities Research)
by Andrew McCann
Writing the Love of Boys: Origins of Bishonen Culture in Modernist Japanese Literature
by Jeffrey Angles
The Weather in Proust gathers pieces written by the eminent critic and theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick in the last decade of her life, as she worked toward a book on Proust. This book takes its title from the first essay, a startlingly original interpretation of Proust. By way of Neoplatonism, Buddhism, and the work of Melanie Klein, Sedgwick establishes the sense of refreshment and surprise that the author of the Recherche affords his readers. Proust also figures in pieces on the poetry of C. P....
Explores Beckett's artistic vision at the intersection of queer, disability and posthumanist studies The first volume to address norms and normalcy as an enduring target of Beckettian skepticism Shifts the emphasis from generic talk of 'Other Becketts' to specific accounts of the queer, the disabling, the abnormalising aspects of the mature works Absorbs and transcends the philosophy/history binary that has shaped the last twenty years Brings Beckett Studies into the twenty-first century as the...
Mad for Foucault (New Directions in Critical Theory) (Gender and Culture)
by Lynne Huffer
Michel Foucault was the first to embed the roots of human sexuality in discipline and biopolitics, therefore revolutionizing our conception of sex and its relationship to society, economics, and culture. Yet over the past two decades, scholars have limited themselves to the study of Foucault's History of Sexuality, volume 1 paying lesser attention to his equally explosive History of Madness. In this earlier volume, Foucault recasts Western rationalism as a project that both produces and represse...
A captivating book about the emotional and literary power of the lives we might have lived had our chances or choices been different.We each live one life, formed by paths taken and untaken. Choosing a job, getting married, deciding on a place to live or whether to have children-every decision precludes another. But what if you'd gone the other way? It can be a seductive thought, even a haunting one.Andrew H. Miller illuminates this theme of modern culture: the allure of the alternate self. From...
Presenting an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to colonial America's best-known literary genre, Andrew Newman analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives. While histories of literacy and colonialism have emphasized the experiences of Native Americans, as students in missionary schools or as parties to treacherous treaties, captivity narratives reveal what literacy meant to colonists among Indians. Colonial captives treasured the written wo...
Counterfactual Thinking - Counterfactual Writing (Linguae & Litterae, #12)
Counterfactuality is currently a hotly debated topic. While for some disciplines, such as linguistics, cognitive science, or psychology, counterfactual scenarios have been an important object of study for quite a while, counterfactual thinking has in recent years emerged as a method of study for other disciplines, most notably the social sciences. This volume provides an overview of the current definitions and uses of the concept of counterfactuality in philosophy, historiography, political scie...
Whether engaged in same-sex desire or gender nonconformity, black queer individuals live with being perceived as a threat while simultaneously being subjected to the threat of physical, psychological, and socioeconomical injury. Attending to and challenging threats has become a defining element in queer black artists’ work throughout the black diaspora. GerShun Avilez analyzes the work of diasporic artists who, denied government protections, have used art to create spaces for justice. He first f...
Discourses and Representations of Friendship in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700
Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection examines the varied and complex ways in which early modern Europeans imagined, discussed and enacted friendship, a fundamentally elective relationship between individuals otherwise bound in prescribed familial, religious and political associations. The volume is carefully designed to reflect the complexity and multi-faceted nature of early modern friendship, and each chapter comprises a case study of specific contexts, narratives and/or lived friendshi...
Was Shakespeare gay? Is The Merchant of Venice anti-semitic? How does mainstream reading differ from that of subcultural groups? How does the formal study of literature handle such questions? In this lively and readable book, Alan Sinfield engages, freely, provocatively, and wittily, with topics such as the gendering of literary culture, the sexual politics of psychoanalysis during the Cold War, and the history of cultural materialism, and discusses figures such as Shakespeare, Christopher Marlo...
Writing and Psychoanalysis
This is a reader which provides considerable study material, some of which is appearing for the first time in English, on the subject of psychoanalysis in relation to writing. The collection is composed of both classical and modern texts, including translations of Foucault, Lacan and Kristeva, and the book is divided into four sections: the first section contains texts which discuss and theorize about the nature and relevance of psychoanalysis in relation to writing; the second section directly...
Edward II: A Critical Reader (Arden Early Modern Drama Guides)
This work examines how lesbian detective and mystery fiction represents lesbian characters and experience within the confines of the genre. As this book points out, such fiction reveals the lesbian's increasing visibility in the wider society. Nevertheless, it can still be difficult to find a complete representation of lesbian life in mainstream literature. Often the best place to find the lesbian represented in books is within the pages of genre fiction--especially the detective story. This boo...
What makes the textual image of a woman with a penis so compelling,malleable, and persistent? The phallic woman can be a ribald joke, afantastical impossibility, a masculine usurper, an ultimatelyunthreatening sexual style, an interrogation into the I of the author,or an examination of female culpability. Every Inch a Woman takes noteof a proliferation of phallic feminine figures in disparate NorthAmerican and European texts from the end of the nineteenth centuryonward. Carellin Brooks traces th...
Professions of Desire
Professions of Desire includes examples of lesbian and gay literary analysis and thoughtful discussions about what it means to be lesbian, gay, or queer in the literature classroom. The four essays in the first section, ""Teaching Positions,"" examine teaching from a theoretical perspective, analyse the role of the professor in the classroom, and seek to redefine what instructors ask of their students as well as of themselves. In ""Canons and Closets,"" five essays discuss curricular and organis...
This book explores representations of intersex - intersex persons, intersex communities, and intersex as a cultural concept and knowledge category - in contemporary North American literature and popular culture. The study turns its attention to the significant paradigm shift in the narratives on intersex that occurred within early 1990s intersex activism in response to biopolitical regulations of intersex bodies. Focusing on the emergence of recent autobiographical stories and cultural productio...